Did a live collab set with him once, set up by a friend with no real interest in noise. Fairly trendy space in Tokyo. As the event was non noise related I didn't bother to mention it to a single noise-oriented person in the vicinity, even those who lived literally down the block. Shiratori showed up in suit and tie, his wife in full-on kimono, played very straight wall-like analog noise against my own shit. Thought we were pretty solid. Shiratori was living way the hell out of Tokyo, was very soft spoken and could speak barely a word of English. We performed separately sometime later at another event set up by the same friend (again only vaguely noise related, unless you'd call crawling around in a diaper whilst getting whipped and ordered to do self-demeaning things by the lovely Kunt noise related...) This time Shiratori did laptop-based scritchety scree. Wasn't all that bad, maybe, but the sound system was complete shit so hard to assess. I have a few cdrs, also featuring that same friend, only gave them a cursory run through, which is about all they'll ever get. I definitely love the fact that he exists, just for the pleasure of the possibility of legitimizing the fearless shitting on the English language...
